No one could have predicted that the Pale Church would pull such a stunt.
The Human Federation Government was baffled, but relying on the past power of the Pale God and the past cowardice of Abraham, the new emperor of the Pale Church, they did not use force immediately. Instead, they sent people to try to persuade them slowly.
After their attempts to persuade the church failed, they still did not resort to force. Instead, they adopted a more radical approach of coercion and enticement in an attempt to suppress the sudden change in the Pale Church.
There's really no way around it. The Pale Church's three thousand years of rule and deep cultivation have made it far more powerful than the so-called self-established College of Cardinals. It's like comparing an elephant to an ant. The Pale Church's followers make up 60% of the Human Federation's population, and its influence extends to every aspect of human society. This is why the Human Federation Government never dared to kill Abraham's trio from the very beginning.
Even today, they still dare not act rashly, and can only try to coerce, entice, and gently persuade.
Unfortunately, the result was far from what we hoped for!
The Norton 3K era, 200 years ago.
Despite exhausting all negotiating tactics Human Federation Government still failed to achieve a satisfactory outcome.
Moreover, due to prior precautions and their status as popes, they can no longer forcefully storm the Pale Holy See and arrest the new King Abraham as they had in the past.
Because they merely published an article condemning the new king of the Pale Church, Abraham, they garnered a large number of protests from believers, which even turned into large crowds in the streets.
Under these circumstances, the Human Federation Government finally realized the situation.
For large organizations like the Pale Church, which have deeply penetrated all aspects of society, simply coercing the higher-ups is useless. The only way to truly succeed is to gradually divide and conquer them.
Therefore, the Human Federation Government finally contacted the Cardinals, the Church College of Cardinals that had always wanted its legitimacy to be recognized by the Human Federation Government, in order to negotiate a split between the Pale Church.
At the same time, in just over a decade, the number of newborns has increased dramatically, and the surge in population has forced the Human Federation to make frantic use of space jump technology to expand outwards into star systems. The number of spaceships that jump almost every day is in the hundreds of millions.
Despite the unprecedented pace of expansion of the Human Federation, the space jumps have undeniably brought with them a massive amount of Soul Matter.
Such behavior naturally aroused the vigilance of the Human Federation.
While the self-sacrifice of the Pale God is highly questionable, the destruction of Adamxis Planet did indeed occur.
Therefore, the Human Federation had long prepared a group of scientific researchers to monitor changes in Soul Matter within the Human Federation's territory, hoping to determine the so-called safety threshold through monitoring.
It must be said that this behavior is truly audacious and reckless, overestimating the power of humankind.
But this is the norm for this group of powerful figures in the Human Federation Government.
After all, they dared to speak ill of the Pale God Pale God when he was still alive, let alone this so-called ethereal soul and the pressure of reality.
This two-pronged, reckless act of self-destruction irresistibly fueled the Pale Church's rebellious sentiments to their peak!
In the Norton 3K era, in 210, after waiting for ten long years, the Human Federation still failed to issue a ban on life. Instead, the Human Federation confirmed the orthodoxy of the Church College of Cardinals. Abraham, the new emperor who attempted to split the Pale Church, finally issued the most insane order in a fit of rage.
"Since the first year of Norton, our Emperor has bestowed upon us the power of eternal life and the gospel of eternal bliss. The people of Garden of Eden, having received this gift, should have built cities of unbridled pleasure and constructed a real-life Heaven, so that they may live in eternal bliss and ascend to immortality!"
However, humanity, unaware of the extremes of environmental degradation, has proliferated unchecked, leading to the sins of greed!
Thus, the balance between Heaven and Garden of Eden is shattered, and the barrier between reality and the soul collapses. An overwhelming catastrophe is imminent, and all things will wither and decay.
However, our Emperor, the Pale God Norton, moved by the suffering of all beings and unwilling to see his compatriots perish, sacrificed himself to seal off reality and Heaven.
This balance should have continued; reality is indeed Heaven on earth.
However, those in high positions, driven by their own selfish desires, claim that this is a shackle imposed by the gods.
To divert class contradictions, they opened Pandora's box of confinement.
Over the past few decades, new life has multiplied and can move freely in and out of the Subspace, causing reality to be Soul Infestation and bringing about a great extinction.
In order to carry out the will of my Emperor and safeguard the Garden of Garden of Eden, I will, in the name of the Holy See, call upon millions of pale believers.
The holy war begins today!
The invading soul must eventually find its way back; death will be the ultimate means of maintaining balance!
A shocking statement was issued by the Pale Holy See, igniting the entire Human Federation almost instantly.
Norton, after all, ruled for three thousand years and was fundamental to human evolution, with followers throughout the universe.
These believers, who were previously restrained from making outrageous statements online due to Church rules, have now turned the tables in real life!
Moreover, they were already filled with anger because of the previous public opinion incident.
Since the Pale Holy See issued its statement, the entire Pale Church has come back to life.
On that very day, the Garden of Eden Human Federation Government was attacked by hundreds of millions of believers who were at least at the Fifth Stage, and all of them were Fifth Stage powerhouses with strong mutations.
Tens of millions of Angel swept across the sky, their blazing golden flames turning the entire Human Federation Government into a sea of fire; the material remained unharmed, but the souls perished.
The ice and snow magic swept across the land, and the entire Northern Continent was reduced to utter ruins by the summoned meteorite. Even the Garden of Eden was shaken by a magnitude 10 earthquake.
There were countless other mutated powerhouses of all kinds. Some traversed the void, recklessly unleashing their power. Others were enormous, capable of crushing a city building with a single stomp.
Even the forty-odd terrifying Gargoyle had followed the Pale God for millennia and turned to stone since his resurrection were revived from their petrification, roaring as they crashed into skyscrapers, overturned buildings, and destroyed the city.
The entire Garden of Eden was engulfed in flames, with civilians suffering heavy casualties and the high-ranking officials almost entirely wiped out.
The Yongle Palace, once hailed as the Land of Abundance, the cradle of human civilization, the absolute center where a single toilet could fuel five thousand years of struggle, the Garden of Eden, was plowed three times in a single day. Wherever the Pale Church procession passed, everything was engulfed in flames.
Apart from the true top leaders of the Human Federation Government who escaped Garden of Eden in a moment of crisis by using the spaceship's space jump technology, all other civilians and officials were reduced to ashes, their souls returning to Heaven.